battlemunky

Ha! I used that same image for making a sheath once. It looks like my dad. Please show us yours when it's done!

Really good looking and high quality items. Again! Classy as well.

Hope he likes it, cuz he's likely to have it most of his life! Turned out really well, he should be proud of his work.

At least you can't eat leather very easily. I love fresh bread. Makes me miss my mom!

Great work yet again @Mattsbagger!

Gotcha. My can is about half gone so I will give it a shot and race the greasy glory which is Vaseline!

Won't vaseline degrade some metals?

Man, that is really well done and yes, lifelike. I love this!

Welcome to the bully bench and thank you for pulling up a seat. I've almost bitten my tongue in half not offering up simple and effective advice to this guy lately. Every single one of his issues are correctable but when you are getting called a douchebag and a bully and being accused of trying to make people spend money on things they don't need (scrap? really?) when all you are trying to do is make one of those people who refuse responsibility for their own ineptitude try to grasp some rather simple concepts that will answer questions that they asked......I'm weary. I'm just sitting back and shaking my head and hoping like hell people see through the "get rich quick in leatherworking by hiding shit quality under some shit quality webbing" and pass his goods by. I know that is wrongview on my part, but consumers deserve better than crap. It is why I try and improve with every single stitch and a big part of why I've decided to be a leathercrafter and this person's behavior slaps in the face of everything most of us do. /endrant edit: So now I feel the need to apologize (just a little). I'm imposing my morality on this situation more than I meant to. If someone is interested in doing the least possible amount of work at the lowest acceptable quality level for them, who am I to judge? I can only try my best to improve to a level I'm cool with. Other's levels are different and I get that. I can, however, use my wisdom to stay out of toxic forum discussions when I've already been in it and see where it's going. So, I'm out of this one. Can't say I'm not going to read and roll my eyes and hope that the trail of breadcrumbs is followed to something complete and correct, but I'm out.

No sweat @koreric75. I haven't tried it long enough to know how effective it is yet, its only been a few weeks, but it sounded reasonable.

We have one right up the road, actually.

Congrats on the score! I'm waiting for a similar bit of good fortune to find me.

That looks super comfortable @rodneywt1180b and well made!

On one of Weaver leather's videos with Chuck Dorset, he says he stores his glue on its cap. Cap never gets stuck on and I imagine it'll keep any evaporation through any tiny gaps in the threads from happening.

Looks good to me!

@RockyAussie, thanks for the above and that croc bag is quite awesome!

One of those Olfa opaque quilting rulers helped me straighten up a good deal. Also, holding down your straightedge through the cut is imperative. Misplaced stitches happen from time to time but practice, practice, practice will tighten that skill up dramatically.

I've been using the thread from China being sold on Amazon and have been quite impressed with it. It sews well and is plenty strong and very inexpensive, just be patient waiting for it to show up. https://www.amazon.com/KONMAY-Turquoise-Leather-Stitching-Jewelry/dp/B07923F85K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1536802687&sr=8-2&keywords=turquoise+leather+thread&dpID=517HTXzvMkL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=V66ZW4nKIovgzgLy15rgAg&q=fish+leather&btnK=Google+Search&oq=fish+leather&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l10.1249.3342..3612...0.0..0.175.903.12j1....2..0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131.FrR66PtbRuA

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Glad you like them! Mine from AM is pretty crisp. Please do a side by side comparison when the other ones come in.

Also, as a marksman, there really is only one way to consistently hit the black..... Best of luck to you. Seriously. I hope you can turn your chicken crap into some form of chicken salad. Until then, Paraguayan buyers beware!

Nice work on both!

First, there is such a thing as fish leather.... Second, I don't appreciate being called a douchebag. I mean, really? I could sugar coat all the things I have said instead of being truly constructive. Sure man, your "rustic" stuff looks really, really poor. Rustic isn't defined by "the lowest amount of work I can bamboozle folks out of the most I can charge them." I've seen you on here for about a month and I have seen not a ton of improvement. Your work appears as if you have zero care for trying to get better. I feel like you are "one of those people on a forum" who troll and try to get folks angry. Are we being punked? I'll no longer comment on the schlock you post as work for commentary and I'll silently sit behind my keyboard and laugh at it hoping that nobody wastes their hard earned coin on trash. Have some damned pride and if you insult me again I'll report you to the mods. Up your quality, not your level of offensiveness and arrogance.

Looks nice. I like your paint job, all your lines stayed really nice and clean. What is the background? Kinda looks like cheetah print.